If you needed a material to handle a primordial force, high-strength carbon fiber is the recommendation. Carbon fiber offers high strength and high modulus — 7–9× steel — with a tensile elastic modulus of 23 000–43 000 MPa and tensile strength of 4900 MPa, higher than steel.
Carbon Fiber Parameters
- Tensile strength: 4900 MPa
- Tensile modulus: 240 GPa
- Elongation: 2.0 %
- Density: 1.80 g/cm³
- Diameter: 7 μm
Using T700 12K as a reference, density is 1.80 g/cm³ — lighter than steel (7.85 g/cm³). For equal volume, carbon fiber weighs roughly one quarter of steel.
Bidirectional Weave 200 g/m²
- Length × width: 100 m × variable
- Width: 100 / 200 / 300 / 500 / 600 mm
- Thickness: 0.111 mm (single layer)
Bidirectional Weave 300 g/m²
- Width: 100 / 200 / 300 / 500 / 1000 mm
- Thickness: 0.167 mm (single layer)
Grammage and ply count are sized to load and design — used together with matched epoxy impregnant.